Process of packing meat for transportation



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C. E.DENNY.

PROORSS OF PACKING MEAT POR TRANSPORTATION.

LNO. 258,719. Patented May 30, 1882.

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IlNtIeEn STATES PATENT OEEICE.

CHARLES E. DENNY, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PROCESS OF PACKING MEAT FOR TRANSPORTATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,719, dated May 30, 1882.

Application tiled December 2', 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EDWARD DENNY, a subject of the Queen ot' Great Britain, and now residing at Chicago, in the county ot'Oook and State ot' Illinois, have invented a new and useful Process ot' Packing Meat for Transportation, as well as a new package of meat packed by my-new process, ot' which the following is aspecification.

The object ot' my invention is lo so pack meat that itcan be shipped to great distances without undergoing injurious change and my invention consists in packing the meat in coarse cloth with a preparation ot borax, all as hereinafter fully described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and practice my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with particular ity, reference being-had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a quantity of meat-as, for instance, the whole sides of a hogplaced upon the coarse cloth cnt in the shape in which I use it. Fig. 2 represents aside view ot' one ofthe packages with one side and two ends of the coarse cloth wrapped about the meat. Fig. 3 represents an end view ot' thesame package with one end and two sides ofthe cloth wrapped about the meat. Fig. et represents a top view of one ot' the packages otl meat entirely wrapped in the coarse cloth, done up and placed in a box, and Fig. 5 shows a sectional view taken on the line x .r in Fig. 4.

It is very important that meat in transportation shall. undergo as little change as possible, so as to reach its destination nearly in its original state or condition, and this object I attain by the means I will now describe.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a coarse cloth, with four folding flaps. B represents the sides of hogs, one laid upon the other. I ordinarily pack in one Cloth the entire bodies ot' two hogs, in the manner elearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. As I place these sides ot' hogs one above the other I put between the pieces a small quantity of borax. I then fold the ap ofthe cloth over the meat and draw the edges firmly together by the use of tying strings or cords, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. I place inside of this canvas, around the meat, a small quantity ot' (No specimens.)

Heretofore it has been com mon to transport meat unwrapped, in which case it was necessary to cure and box the meat, and use such an amount of antiseptic as would seriouslyimpair the avor, character, and quality ot' the Ineat. It has also been the practice to wrap up the meats in cloths which protect them from injury and keep them drier than is possible without suehwrappers; but this does not preserve the meat from injurious changes. The meats have also been dried and wrapped in cloths saturated with borax solution; but this takes out the juices and makes a dry instead ot" a fresh article.

The object of my invention is to secure the preservative effect of the antiscptics without using the latter in such quantities as are productive of injury or impair the value of the meat as fresh meat; and this I effect by first placing a small portion ofthe antiseptic upon the surface of the meat, sufficient, if retained in place and not exposed to Inoisture, to preserve the meat, and then wrapping the latter, as described, thereby preventing to a great degree the access of moisture to the antiseptic, maintaining the strength of the latter, and keeping it in contact with the meat. I am thus enabled to transport the meat without injury, while using but a small proportion of the preservative material heretofore required.

I claim- The mode described ot' packing fresh meat for transportation, the same consisting of ap plying a limited quantity of dry borax to the meat and wrapping the latter in coarse cloth, as set forth.

CHARLES EDWARD DENNY.

Witnesses:

JNO. C. MACGREGOR, M. B. GAGE. 

